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• The Latest: US says COVID-19 retesting not needed by most

  16-07-2020 23:59
  
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s top official in charge of coronavirus testing is urging Americans not to get retested for COVID-19 to confirm they’ve recovered.
  Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett Giroir said Thursday that repeat testing is not necessary for most people who are infected but remain at home. He said such testing is “clogging up the system.”
  U.S. health officials will soon issue guidelines explicitly recommending against the practice, excep
  
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• Coronavirus alters Elvis Week; candlelight vigil still on

  16-07-2020 23:59
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — ‎Plans for the weeklong celebration of rock ‘n’ roll icon Elvis Presley on the 43rd anniversary of his death have been shaken up by the new coronavirus, but organizers are forging ahead with a combination of in-person and online events at Graceland next month. Fans will still be allowed to gather for an in-person vigil at Graceland to cap Elvis Week, scheduled this year for Aug. 8-16 in Memphis, Tennessee, where Presley lived. But they’ll have to
  
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• Asylum rules test Trump’s legal skills to make new policy

  16-07-2020 23:57
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Critics of the Trump administration’s most sweeping set of rules to restrict asylum in the United States have sent in a deluge of comments opposing the effort. They hope an old law that serves as a check on presidential power will weaken or even doom it. The government’s proposal would make it much more difficult to get asylum and drew nearly 80,000 public comments before a Wednesday deadline. The administration must address every concern in its final version.
  
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• Judge delays deadline to free detained migrant children

  16-07-2020 23:55
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has extended the deadline for the release of migrant children from detention, as advocates for detained families feared the government would create what they called a new form of family separation. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles on Thursday granted a request for a 10-day extension to release children held in family detention centers longer than 20 days. In her ruling last month setting the Friday deadline, Gee said the family detention centers &
  
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• Anniversary of world’s 1st atomic test fuels nuclear debate

  16-07-2020 23:51
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The nation’s top nuclear security official is in New Mexico to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the the world’s first atomic explosion. The test is both revered for the scientific advancements it helped to usher in and vilified for the moral and diplomatic implications that still linger in its wake. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, says the Trinity Test in 1945 helped to avert wars and saved untold millions o
  
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• A-Rod, bidding for Mets, wants players to accept cap system

  16-07-2020 23:42
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez called for baseball players accept the type of revenue-sharing system that is tied to a salary cap, sparking quick opposition from the union. A-Rod is among four groups of bidders for a possible purchase of the New York Mets. Relations between Major League Baseball and the players’ association are at the lowest point in a quarter-century and the sides appear headed to a spring training lockout in 2022. A-Rod is preparing for the start of his third seaso
  
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• New Jersey regulators mulling Eldorado buyout of Caesars

  16-07-2020 23:41
  
  New Jersey gambling regulators plan to vote Friday on the last approval needed for Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc.’s huge $17.3 billion buyout of Caesars Entertainment Corp. to create the world’s biggest casino company. The deal directly affects four of nine casinos in Atlantic City. The state Casino Control Commission decided Thursday that two competitors _ the Hard Rock Atlantic City and the Ocean Casino Resort _ asked too late for time to comment. The merger would give Eldorado
  
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• Kosovo leader tells prosecutors he committed no war crimes

  16-07-2020 23:35
  
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The president of Kosovo says he has told prosecutors at a special international court in the Netherlands that he committed no crimes during the 1998-1999 war after which his country won independence from Serbia. President Hashim Thaci ended on Thursday four days of questioning by prosecutors who have charged him with criminal responsibility for murders and other crimes during and after his nation’s battle for independence from Serbia. The indictment charges Th
  
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• CBP: Man arrested for attempting to smuggle 6 migrants into US while transporting remains to Arizona mortuary

  16-07-2020 23:34
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - A man was arrested in Douglas Monday after U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered six undocumented immigrants and a deceased person in his SUV during an immigration inspection vehicle stop.According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agent stopped a GMC SUV at around 6 p.m. near Douglas on Monday.Authorities said the agents discovered six Mexican nationals hidden inside the SUV. They six were reportedly determined to be illegally present in
  
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• As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers are ‘prioritizing production over … lives’

  16-07-2020 23:30
  
  Bertha spent 17 days in her bedroom after testing positive for COVID-19.There, she made the soup and the “hot, hot tea” that helped her endure the headaches and coughing fits associated with the contagious respiratory disease.…
  
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• CDC extends US ban on cruise ships through September

  16-07-2020 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal ban on cruise ships operating in U.S. territory is being extended through September. The ban was due to expire next week, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the extension on Thursday. The move comes as coronavirus cases are rising in 40 states. Florida, where many cruises start, just had a single-day record of deaths from COVID-19. Major cruise lines that belong to an industry trade group had already canceled sailings until Sept. 15 b
  
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• Agency throws curveball in largest U.S. dam demolition plan

  16-07-2020 23:26
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday threw a significant curveball at a coalition that has plans to demolish four massive hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border to save salmon. A deal years in the making would require PacifiCorp to transfer its hydroelectric license to a non-profit commission that has been established to oversee the removal of the dams on the Klamath River. But the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday approved only a pa
  
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• Baseless Wayfair child-trafficking theory spreads online

  16-07-2020 23:24
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Self-proclaimed internet sleuths are matching up names of Wayfair’s products to those of missing children as part of a bizarre, baseless conspiracy theory that claims the retail giant is using storage cabinets to traffic children. Mentions of Wayfair and trafficking have exploded on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok over the past week. Even a national human trafficking hotline is suddenly taking calls from tipsters about the imagined scheme. Yet several of the people whom
  
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• The Latest: Texas using refrigerated trailers as deaths rise

  16-07-2020 23:18
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Rising numbers of coronavirus deaths in Texas has increased demand for refrigerated morgue trailers across the state.
  Nearly a third of the more than 3,400 deaths in Texas since the pandemic began have been reported in July alone.
  Health officials in San Antonio say they have acquired two refrigerated trailers and expect to have three more by the end of the week. The officials say local hospitals have also ordered trailers.
  So have smaller communities on the hard-hit Texas-
  
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• Q&A: What’s behind the Twitter Bitcoin hack?

  16-07-2020 23:14
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls in one of the most high-profile security breaches in recent years on Wednesday, highlighting a major flaw with the service millions of people have come to rely on as an essential communications tool. While the hack appeared to be financially motivated, it raised questions about Twitter’s ability to secure its service against election interference and misinformation ahead of th
  
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• Police capture kangaroo hopping through Fort Lauderdale

  16-07-2020 23:00
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Police officers have captured an unlikely suspect bouncing through a Florida neighborhood. After receiving a call Thursday morning about a kangaroo running loose, Fort Lauderdale police officers managed to capture him and place him in a squad car. The marsupial was taken to a barn where the agency keeps its horses. Anthony Macias, who claims to be the kangaroo’s owner, told the Sun Sentinel he’d been hoping to bring his pet, Jack, home, but police t
  
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• Costly and nasty: Failure of Prop. 127 won’t stop renewable energy push, experts say

  16-07-2020 23:00
  
  PHOENIX – The fight over whether Arizona should get half of its electricity from solar, wind and other renewable sources turned bitter election night when Attorney General Mark Brnovich called out California billionaire Tom Steyer for using California’s energy policies to try to influence Arizona’s policies.“I’ve got a message for Tom Steyer,” Brnovich said Tuesday night at the Republican watch party in Scottsdale.…
  
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• Investigators list potential crimes in Indiana assault case

  16-07-2020 22:54
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State investigators have released an incident report identifying six potential crimes in the reported assault on a Black man at a southern Indiana lake. Vauhxx Booker, who says five white men pinned him against a tree, shouted racial slurs and one of them threatened to “get a noose” is listed as a victim of criminal of confinement, as well as a suspect on potential charges of battery and criminal trespassing. Two other men could also face potential charges.
  
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• Flood Advisory issued July 16 at 1:51PM MST until July 16 at 3:45PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  16-07-2020 22:51
  
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a
  * Flood Advisory for…Southwestern Cochise County in southeastern Arizona…
  * Until 345 PM MST.
  * At 151 PM MST, National Weather Service Doppler Radar rainfallestimates, and a trained weather spotter reported heavy rain inthe advisory area due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoingor expected to begin shortly. Up to 1 inch of rain has fallen.
  Some locations that will experience flooding include…Sierra Vista and Fort Hua
  
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• Flood Advisory from THU 1:51 PM MST until THU 3:45 PM MST

  16-07-2020 22:51
  
  Issued by National Weather Service – Tucson, AZ
  Cochise County
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a
  * Flood Advisory for…Southwestern Cochise County in southeastern Arizona…
  * Until 345 PM MST.
  * At 151 PM MST, National Weather Service Doppler Radar rainfallestimates, and a trained weather spotter reported heavy rain inthe advisory area due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoingor expected to begin shortly. Up to 1 inch of rain has fallen.
  Some locations t
  
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• Man pleads guilty to shooting, wounding Minnesota officer

  16-07-2020 22:48
  
  WASECA, Minn. (AP) — A man accused of shooting and seriously wounding a southern Minnesota police officer has pleaded guilty to attempted murder. Thirty-seven-year-old Tyler Robert Janovsky pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer during a hearing in Waseca County District Court. Prosecutors say Janovsky shot Waseca Officer Arik Matson in the head as Matson and other officers responded to a call of a suspicious person with a flashlight in a
  
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• The Latest: US counts 342 child inflammatory syndrome cases

  16-07-2020 22:46
  
  ATLANTA — An official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the most recent count shows 342 U.S. children and teens have developed a serious inflammatory condition linked to COVID-19 infections.
  Dr. Ermias Belay presented the data Thursday during a CDC online call for physicians. Belay says that among U.S cases reported as of July 15, the average age was 8 and most were in children aged 1 to 14.
  That figures show that 40% of cases were in Latino kids and 35% were in Blac
  
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• Crowded meeting with few masks ‘foolish,’ Utah governor says

  16-07-2020 22:43
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says it was foolish for people to crowd into a meeting to push for an exception to mask requirements in schools and it suggested a mob mentality. Herbert spoke Thursday after local officials in Utah County abruptly canceled the Wednesday meeting because the crowd did not follow social-distancing guidelines meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus. County commissioners had planned to vote on whether to ask for a partial exemption fr
  
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• Russia is hacking virus vaccine trials, US, UK, Canada say

  16-07-2020 22:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Western governments are accusing hackers believed to be part of the Russian intelligence services of trying to steal information about a coronavirus vaccine. They issued on Thursday an unusually detailed warning aimed at publicly calling out the Kremlin and putting scientists and medical companies on notice about suspicious behavior.  Intelligence agencies in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada alleged that the hacking group APT29 is attacking academic and p
  
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• Stocks dip on Wall Street as global rally fades, led by tech

  16-07-2020 22:30
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street drifted to a lower close Thursday after mixed reports on the economy highlighted its uncertain path, including one showing that layoffs continue at a stubbornly steady pace. The S&P 500 lost 0.3%, following up on declines across Europe and Asia, as a worldwide rally faded. Travel-related stocks led the S&P 500 to its first loss in three days as cruise-ship operators, airlines and hotels gave up chunks of their big gains from a day earlier. Drops for Micr
  
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• COVID-19 in Arizona: Expert paints mixed picture of virus situation in state

  16-07-2020 22:30
  
  PHOENIX – The head of Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute painted a glum picture Wednesday of current COVID-19 trends in the state, but he also suggested that the trend could be slowly improving.Joshua LaBaer, executive director of the Biodesign Institute, noted that virus cases are soaring across the country, and that Arizona is one of the states leading the surge.…
  
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• Analysis: Trump wants a 2016 repeat in a very different year

  16-07-2020 22:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls. With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior.Four years later, and in the midst of another summer slump, Trump is hoping a similar campaign shakeup will help put him on the path to another come-from-behind victory in November, this time against Democrat Joe Biden.But there are multiple reasons why 2020 is a very different campaign year for Trump.Chief
  
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• Ethics Committee clears Rep. Trahan in campaign finance case

  16-07-2020 22:28
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee has cleared U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan following an investigation into allegations that the Massachusetts Democrat accepted excessive campaign contributions and reported them as personal loans even though they may not have been sourced from her personal funds. The investigation focused on allegations that Trahan’s husband deposited funds into a joint checking account that she then used to make $300,000 in loans to her campaign during the 2018 elect
  
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• Navy says ship fire in San Diego is now out; cause unknown

  16-07-2020 22:26
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Navy announced Thursday that the fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard has been extinguished, ending one of the worst infernos to rip through a U.S. warship outside of combat in recent years. Now the attention is turning to the fate of the 840-foot (255-meter) amphibious assault ship _ whose forward mast collapsed. Once it’s safe, officials plan to go compartment by compartment to examine its charred bowels and determine if it is salvageable. Teams were checking the v
  
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• Netflix promotes content chief to co-CEO; adds 10M new subs

  16-07-2020 22:25
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix added a flood of new subscribers amid the coronavirus pandemic and also offered clues to a possible successor for founding CEO Reed Hastings, who on Thursday named the company’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, as co-CEO. The company picked up 10.1 million worldwide subscribers during the April-June period, more than triple what it usually adds in that period. The increase announced Thursday with Netflix’s second-quarter earnings eclipsed the gain of
  
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• Arizona COVID-19 patients being sent to New Mexico

  16-07-2020 22:17
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — People who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Arizona are being transferred to New Mexico hospitals because of staffing shortages and a lack of bed space, under a federal law that requires hospitals to accept patients from neighboring states if beds are available. The Albuquerque Journal reported that Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the transfer of out-of-state patients poses challenges as some New Mexico facilities are at or nearing capacity levels. The
  
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• Navy says warship fire in San Diego is now out

  16-07-2020 22:10
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Navy announced Thursday that the fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard has been extinguished, ending one of the worst infernos to rip through a U.S. warship outside of combat in recent years. Now the attention is turning to the fate of the 840-foot (255-meter) amphibious assault ship _ whose forward mast collapsed. Once it’s safe, officials plan to go compartment by compartment to examine its charred bowels and determine if it is salvageable.The post Navy says warship
  
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• Health officials: No outbreak from Trump’s Rushmore visit

  16-07-2020 22:10
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota health officials say it doesn’t appear the July 3 Mount Rushmore fireworks attended by President Donald Trump turned into a hotbed of coronavirus infections, either among South Dakotans or out-of-state tourists. Most of the thousands who attended the celebration came from outside South Dakota. Most were unmasked and didn’t socially distance. But almost two weeks after the event, officials from the South Dakota Department of Health said Thur
  
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• Navy says warship fire that began burning in San Diego on Sunday is out

  16-07-2020 22:07
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Navy says warship fire that began burning in San Diego on Sunday is out.The post Navy says warship fire that began burning in San Diego on Sunday is out appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Black Lives Matter billboard placed next to Confederate flag

  16-07-2020 22:06
  
  A group in North Carolina has erected a Black Lives Matter billboard to counter a Confederate flag that stands along a road in the state. An official with a group that supported the project says the sign was unveiled in Pittsboro and funded by residents in the city. A GoFundMe page to raise money for the sign said the billboard was a way to show Confederate flags “do NOT represent” Pittsboro. Sam White had been leasing the billboard on his property to an outdoor advertising company.
  
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• Boy dies after pickup truck, Amish pony-drawn cart collide

  16-07-2020 22:04
  
  RIPLEY, Ohio (AP) — A young child injured when a pickup truck and an Amish pony-drawn cart collided this week in Ohio has died from his injuries, while three of his siblings remain hospitalized. Seven-year-old Eli Troyer Jr., of Shreve, died early Thursday in a hospital. The cause of death was not released. Troyer and the other three children were thrown from the cart when the collision occurred late Wednesday morning in Ripley. Authorities said Troyer’s 8-year-old sister was operati
  
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• Teen locked up over school work; school disagrees with judge

  16-07-2020 22:03
  
  PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit school district says no student should be punished for missed work during the coronavirus pandemic. The statement comes two days after a news organization reported that a judge placed a teenager in juvenile detention. ProPublica reported that the 15-year-old girl has been in Oakland County’s Children’s Village since mid-May for violating probation in a case involving allegations of assault and theft. A judge cited a “failure to sub
  
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• The Latest: NYC on track to move into next reopening phase

  16-07-2020 22:01
  
  NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York City is on track to move to the fourth phase of his gradual reopening plan, but his administration will review the latest infection data and decide by 4 p.m. Friday.
  The rest of the state is in Phase 4, which typically permits opening malls and certain arts and entertainment centers and restarting professional sports games without fans.
  But Cuomo says no “additional indoor activity” will open in New York in the fourth phase because of
  
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• Good roads, bad drivers: Arizona interstates deadliest in nation, report says

  16-07-2020 22:00
  
  WASHINGTON – Arizona’s interstate highways are in generally good shape, but they experienced the highest rate of fatalities in the nation in 2018, according to a national report released Tuesday.The report by The Road Information Program said that Arizona recorded 1.09 highway deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled on the state’s interstate highways in 2018, almost twice the national average of 0.58 deaths that year.Authors of the TRIP report – titled “Resto
  
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• Ex-Miss Kentucky sentenced to prison on sex crime charge

  16-07-2020 21:54
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former Miss Kentucky who admitted to exchanging sexual photos with a teenage student when she was working as a West Virginia school teacher has been sentenced to prison. News outlets report 29-year-old Ramsey BethAnn Bearse received her two-year sentence in Kanawha County Circuit Court on Tuesday. The former middle school educator pleaded guilty to one count of possessing material depicting minors in sexually explicit conduct in 2019. Authorities said Bearse admi
  
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• Top French diplomat in first Iraq visit since virus outbreak

  16-07-2020 21:49
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — France’s foreign minister has warned of the persistent threat from the Islamic State group in a visit to Iraq, his first official trip outside the European Union in since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Jean-Yves Le Drian met with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad on Thursday. They discussed a broad range of subjects, from IS prisoners of French origin held in Iraqi jails to the continuing threat posed by IS militants. Le Drian said there are “disturbing” s
  
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• Ducey, other state officials to provide COVID-19 update Thursday

  16-07-2020 21:48
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is expected to provide a COVID-19 Thursday.
  Ducey and other state officials are set to speak at 3 p.m. in Phoenix.On Thursday morning, state health officials logged 3,259 new coronavirus cases and 58 more deaths.
  That brings the state’s documented totals to 134,613 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 2,492 known deaths.You watch the press conference on News 4 Tucson's Facebook page and KVOA.COM.OTHER RELATED HEADLINES:On Wednesday, Tucson
  
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• US High Court deals setback to Florida felon voting rights

  16-07-2020 21:45
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A divided U.S Supreme Court has upheld a stay on a lower court ruling that would have given access to the ballot box to hundreds of thousands of Florida felons. As a result, those affected will likely not be able to vote in the state’s primary election next month and possibly in the crucial presidential election in November. The high court’s order Thursday comes just four days before the deadline to register for the primary. The Atlanta-based 11th Circu
  
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• Corrections officer placed on administrative leave after unintentional discharge of firearm, PCSD says

  16-07-2020 21:32
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Deputies are investigating the unintentional discharge of a firearm by a corrections officer.
  On July 11, deputies were dispatched to the 16000 block of South Delgado Road for a report of a shooting.Corrections Officer Raul Burrel, 30, allegedly fired a bullet from a handgun through his hand and into the chest of another man.Pima County Sheriff's Department says both men were transported to the hospital with serious injuries.
  Deputies say Burrel was off-duty at the time of the in
  
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• Oklahoma AG reaches jurisdiction agreement with five tribes

  16-07-2020 21:31
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s attorney general and five major Native American tribes in Oklahoma have reached an agreement on civil and criminal jurisdiction after a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. Republican Attorney General Mike Hunter announced the deal on Thursday, along with tribal leaders of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations. Under the agreement, the state would have criminal jurisdiction over non-Native American offenders throughout
  
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• Democrats climate plan signals shift in approach to environmental issues

  16-07-2020 21:30
  
  WASHINGTON – In the South Phoenix neighborhood of Lindo Park-Roesley Park, temperatures can be up to 13 degrees higher than locations just 2 miles away, according to the Nature Conservancy.Communities that are predominantly Hispanic and Black, like Lindo Park-Roesley Park, are part of the focus in a new plan outlined June 30 by Democrats in Congress.…
  
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• US, Canada and Mexico borders to stay closed for travelers

  16-07-2020 21:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S., Canada and Mexico have agreed to keep their shared borders closed to non-essential traffic until at least late August because of COVID-19. Acting U.S. Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf announced the agreement Thursday. He said restrictions on cross-border traffic that have been in place since March have helped slow the spread of the coronavirus. The extension agreed to by the three countries would keep the border closed until Aug. 21. The partial closure
  
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• UA professors to decide if classes are in person or remote

  16-07-2020 21:16
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — University of Arizona President Robert Robbins says individual professors will decide whether to teach their classes in person, remotely or in a hybrid fashion in the fall. The semester begins Aug. 24. Robbins says the university is trying to find a balance between students’ desires for in-person instruction on campus and many faculty members’ health concerns. The university switched to remote learning last March but announced in April that it planned to re
  
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• Search continues for remains from Tulsa massacre; none found

  16-07-2020 21:16
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre continued for a fourth day with no remains found thus far during an excavation of a Tulsa cemetery. State Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Thursday that searchers remain optimistic as they expand the area being excavated and have added an augur probe to drill further into the soil and collect samples that could indicate the presence of human remains. On May 31 and June 1 in 1921, white residents looted
  
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• Michigan department announces child care reforms after death

  16-07-2020 21:13
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has announced several child welfare changes after a 16-year-old boy died of cardiac arrest two days after being restrained at a youth facility. The facility has since had its license suspended, but the department announced Thursday that more changes are coming. Emergency rules set by the health department prohibit state-licensed child-caring institutions from using dangerous restraints that involve placing children
  
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